Hi, On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 12:47:25PM +0100, Phil Sutter wrote: > So far my idea of maintaining Fedora's iproute package was to do full > version updates only in Rawhide and backport patches selectively to > stable versions on behalf of bug reports. > > But since stable versions indeed receive full kernel updates (not just > backported patches), there is an understandable amount of frustration > amongst users when the shiny new kernel that comes with e.g. F22 > provides features userspace does not support. > > Especially since upstream iproute2 does not really have a concept of > stable versions, I'm in a bit of a dilemma here: update to keep in sync > with the kernel or not update to not unnecessarily destabilize the > system? > > Any comments/advice are highly appreciated. I have been asked by various people why I don't update iproute in stable releases to match the shipped kernel version and then had a longer brainstorming with Lubomir about how to limit the involved risks. My plan is to indeed do the updates, but I will adjust karma thresholds to very conservative values for them. I'm thinking about having a stable threshold of 10 and and unstable one of -1 to enforce a longer review time and have the process fail early in case problems occur. Please drop me a note if you have strong feelings against this. Cheers, Phil _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
